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Sandwich as metaphor is not that far off from Chickfillah, where, as I was informed, 'the homophobia makes it taste good' apparently

the issue with nostalgic social democracy (less cash transfers, more going to The Government Office; fresh yalies trying to fix the economy by turning a plastic steering wheel back & forth) is not that it’s not utopian enough, it’s that it’s not even clear it’s better than this

Sharon are you familiar with the LWB bicycle weekends saga in seattle

This is correct: Farage was recruited by the press to 1) front up their endless outrage campaigns over nothing, and 2) troll the Tories from the right. Under no circumstances was he employed to 3) become the editors’ boss and control things like press regulation. So they’re revoking his legitimacy.

it’s funny how the transgender 2020s is Oops! All Anita Bryants

It's what Americans deserve

one of the better things marx was a jerk about was incoherently moderate demands. the moderate version of a political demand, as he said time & again, is often the basically unrealistic one because it imagines an aestheticising or moralising tweak to an already coherent system

it's that time of year in seattle again

In 2016, North Carolina banned trans people from bathrooms and the institutional outcry and public outrage was so enormous NC backtracked in fear. Now every single day another institution turns against trans people to deafening public silence. Today it was the WNBA.

This is the last bipartisan consensus in America; basically everybody agrees that if you murder someone with your car it should be legal.

This was Panofsky's very first publication, which came out when he was 23 years old. A bold move. We contextualize this essay in our introduction here. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Every detail of this is miserable and horrific and in a truly just world Tate will die in prison, but it's hard to get into the details of the various cases against him and not come away full of rage at the utter failings of police to take women seriously. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Root and branch reform, sack the lot, prosecute some of them.

The dominant feature of this haori is a checkerboard pattern created through yuzen-painting, composed of squares in earth tones. The checkerboard pattern, known as ichimatsu in Japanese, is a classic motif in Japanese design, often associated with Kabuki theater. Taisho period (1912-1926), Japan.

many Americans think corruption is a sign of success or canniness

my favourite Michael Kalecki quote: “I have found out what economics is; it is the science of confusing stocks with flows”.

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it's so funny they simultaneously want to win the "AI race" and also nuke graduate students in America, most of whom will take their expertise back home

I got into a hollering argument about trans rights with a chud at my Olympic weightlifting gym a few years ago. A few weeks later, he dropped a full-blown N-bomb during a casual conversation. It's like clockwork.

Re: post-literate: read Walter Ong, and also this bit of the Succession script